General terms and rigidity: another solution to the trivialization problem

In this paper I am concerned with the problem of applying the notion of rigidity to general terms. In Naming and Necessity, Kripke has clearly suggested that we should include some general terms among the rigid ones, namely, those common nouns semantically correlated with natural substances, species...

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Autor: Orlando, Eleonora Eva
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Fecha de publicación:2014
País:Argentina
Institución:Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas
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Idioma:inglés
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DESIGNACIÓN RÍGIDA
MUNDOS POSIBLES
PROBLEMA DE LA TRIVIALIZACIÓN
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https://purl.org/becyt/ford/6
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spelling General terms and rigidity: another solution to the trivialization problemOrlando, Eleonora EvaTÉRMINOS GENERALESDESIGNACIÓN RÍGIDAMUNDOS POSIBLESPROBLEMA DE LA TRIVIALIZACIÓNhttps://purl.org/becyt/ford/6.3https://purl.org/becyt/ford/6In this paper I am concerned with the problem of applying the notion of rigidity to general terms. In Naming and Necessity, Kripke has clearly suggested that we should include some general terms among the rigid ones, namely, those common nouns semantically correlated with natural substances, species and phenomena, in general, natural kinds -'water', 'tiger', 'heat'- and some adjectives -'red', 'hot', 'loud'. However, the notion of rigidity has been defined for singular terms; after all, the notion that Kripke has provided us with is the notion of a rigid designator. But general terms do not designate single individuals: rather, they apply to many of them. In sum, the original concept of rigidity cannot be straightforwardly applied to general terms: it has to be somehow redefined in order to make it cover them. As is known, two main positions have been put forward to accomplish that task: the identity of designation conception, according to which a rigid general term is one that designates the same property or kind in all possible worlds, and the essentialist conception, which conceives of a rigid general term as an essentialist one, namely, a term that expresses an essential property of an object. My purpose in the present paper is to defend a particular version of the identity of designation conception: on the proposed approach, a rigid general term will be one that expresses the same property in all possible worlds and names the property it expresses. In my opinion, the position can be established on the basis of an inference to the best explanation of our intuitive interpretation and evaluation, relative to counterfactual circumstances, of statements containing different kinds of general terms, which is strictly analogous to our intuitive interpretation and evaluation, relative to such circumstances, of statements containing different kinds of singular ones. I will argue that it is possible to offer a new solution to the trivialization problem that is thought to threaten all versions of the identity of designation conception of rigidity. Finally, I will also sketch a solution to the so-called 'over-generalization and under-generalization problems', both closely related to the above-mentioned one.Fil: Orlando, Eleonora Eva. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras. Departamento de Filosofía; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; ArgentinaUniversidade Estadual de Campinas. Centro de Lógica, Epistemologia e História da Ciência2014-06info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionhttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501info:ar-repo/semantics/articuloapplication/pdfapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/11336/35992Orlando, Eleonora Eva; General terms and rigidity: another solution to the trivialization problem; Universidade Estadual de Campinas. Centro de Lógica, Epistemologia e História da Ciência; Manuscrito; 37; 1; 6-2014; 51-840100-60452317-630XCONICET DigitalCONICETenginfo:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/url/https://periodicos.sbu.unicamp.br/ojs/index.php/manuscrito/article/view/8641964info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/url/http://ref.scielo.org/jnks64info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1590/S0100-60452014000100002info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesshttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ar/reponame:CONICET Digital (CONICET)instname:Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas2024-05-08T14:21:29Zoai:ri.conicet.gov.ar:11336/35992instacron:CONICETInstitucionalhttp://ri.conicet.gov.ar/Organismo científico-tecnológicoNo correspondehttp://ri.conicet.gov.ar/oai/requestdasensio@conicet.gov.ar; lcarlino@conicet.gov.arArgentinaNo correspondeNo correspondeNo correspondeopendoar:34982024-05-08 14:21:30.074CONICET Digital (CONICET) - Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicasfalse
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv General terms and rigidity: another solution to the trivialization problem
title General terms and rigidity: another solution to the trivialization problem
spellingShingle General terms and rigidity: another solution to the trivialization problem
Orlando, Eleonora Eva
TÉRMINOS GENERALES
DESIGNACIÓN RÍGIDA
MUNDOS POSIBLES
PROBLEMA DE LA TRIVIALIZACIÓN
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/6.3
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/6
title_short General terms and rigidity: another solution to the trivialization problem
title_full General terms and rigidity: another solution to the trivialization problem
title_fullStr General terms and rigidity: another solution to the trivialization problem
title_full_unstemmed General terms and rigidity: another solution to the trivialization problem
title_sort General terms and rigidity: another solution to the trivialization problem
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Orlando, Eleonora Eva
author Orlando, Eleonora Eva
author_facet Orlando, Eleonora Eva
author_role author
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv TÉRMINOS GENERALES
DESIGNACIÓN RÍGIDA
MUNDOS POSIBLES
PROBLEMA DE LA TRIVIALIZACIÓN
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/6.3
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/6
topic TÉRMINOS GENERALES
DESIGNACIÓN RÍGIDA
MUNDOS POSIBLES
PROBLEMA DE LA TRIVIALIZACIÓN
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/6.3
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/6
description In this paper I am concerned with the problem of applying the notion of rigidity to general terms. In Naming and Necessity, Kripke has clearly suggested that we should include some general terms among the rigid ones, namely, those common nouns semantically correlated with natural substances, species and phenomena, in general, natural kinds -'water', 'tiger', 'heat'- and some adjectives -'red', 'hot', 'loud'. However, the notion of rigidity has been defined for singular terms; after all, the notion that Kripke has provided us with is the notion of a rigid designator. But general terms do not designate single individuals: rather, they apply to many of them. In sum, the original concept of rigidity cannot be straightforwardly applied to general terms: it has to be somehow redefined in order to make it cover them. As is known, two main positions have been put forward to accomplish that task: the identity of designation conception, according to which a rigid general term is one that designates the same property or kind in all possible worlds, and the essentialist conception, which conceives of a rigid general term as an essentialist one, namely, a term that expresses an essential property of an object. My purpose in the present paper is to defend a particular version of the identity of designation conception: on the proposed approach, a rigid general term will be one that expresses the same property in all possible worlds and names the property it expresses. In my opinion, the position can be established on the basis of an inference to the best explanation of our intuitive interpretation and evaluation, relative to counterfactual circumstances, of statements containing different kinds of general terms, which is strictly analogous to our intuitive interpretation and evaluation, relative to such circumstances, of statements containing different kinds of singular ones. I will argue that it is possible to offer a new solution to the trivialization problem that is thought to threaten all versions of the identity of designation conception of rigidity. Finally, I will also sketch a solution to the so-called 'over-generalization and under-generalization problems', both closely related to the above-mentioned one.
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